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Teamwork Respect Responsibility Honesty

Important Dates

Gillian Stuart—Principal

Term 4 | Week 3| 30 October 2018

“Education is the

most powerful

weapon which you

can use to change

the world.”

Nelson Mandela

Indo Corner

Bahasa Indonesia ( Indonesian) Ilmu Pengetahuan Alam (Science)

Pendidikan Jasmani (PE) Matematika (Maths)

Kesenian (Art) Musik (Music)

Bahasa Inggris (English) Budaya (Culture)

Agama (Scripture) Sejarah (History)

Mata Pelajaran ( School Subjects)

Bush Tucker Track Visitors from

Alexandria Park Community School

On Thursday, it was a hot sunny day as the kids in our class rushed out into the

COLA. I was paired with Peyton. We toured two kids from Redfern school. They were

in Year 12. We showed them the murals, the whale, the fish and the dolphins and

the seasonal calendar. They loved the seasonal calendar! We went to the bush

tucker track and showed them all the edible things, like native ginger, plum pine and

Davidson plum. We then played a game of basketball. It was fun.

By Matilda Parkhouse

On Thursday, Seb, Zane and I went and showed two

people from Redfern the murals and bush tucker track.

The people loved learning about the 14 different plants -

they even tried eating sarsaparilla but they said it was

yuck. By Payton McMurray

Term 4 2018

Tuesday 30/10/18

Kindergarten 2019 Orientation Workshop 3.30-5.30pm

Monday to Thursday 5/11 to 8/11

Senior Excursion to Cascade

Thursday 29/11/18

Visiting Performance “Brilliant at Being Resilient”

Tuesday 4/12/18

Year 6 Orientation Macksville HS

Thursday 6/12/18

Presentation Night 5.30pm

Thursday 13/12/18

Year 6 Farewell Dinner 6.00pm

Weekly Round Up

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Principal’s Column This Week’s Whale Awards and Class Academic Awards

Hello, Giinagay, Hai,

Every day our teachers are making a positive difference -

creating opportunities for their students, empowering

minds of young people and proudly teaching our state's

future leaders, innovators and influencers. World

Teachers' Day is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate

and thank teachers for the important role they play

across our state - inside our classrooms and out in the

community.

Our teachers are:

Creating opportunities

Empowering minds

Proud to teach

School Administrative and Support (SAS) staff make an

important contribution to student progress and

achievement through their support of school

management, teaching practice and the maintenance of

positive relationships with students, parents and the

community. Our non-teaching members of staff, school

administration, School Learning Support Officers,

support staff, parent volunteers and P&C members are

all part of our Scotts Head PS team transforming lives.

I would like to acknowledge the outstanding job Kelly

Pacey does as our Relieving School Administrative

Manager (SAM). Kelly just spent two days in Sydney at a

coaching and mentoring conference for SAMs enhancing

her skills. Kelly contributes to our school with the

sharing of the management responsibilities. This

includes taking on the budget and other fiscal matters;

transportation and permission slips for excursions, pays

and leave for all staff; and even managing student

discipline in some cases and all the student health care

needs.

By relieving some of the administrative tasks, Kelly does

everything possible to help maximize my time. This

allows me the time to meet with students, teachers,

families and community. This also enables me to

relentlessly focus on school improvement as an

instructional leader, building leadership teams,

supporting discipline and wellbeing. All this builds

teacher confidence and satisfaction, and student

achievement.

Congratulations to Bu Deb and Shannon on the arrival of

their baby girl, Halle.

Good luck to Jalaara and Tegan who are at the State

Athletics Carnival in Sydney.

Thanks, yaarri yaraang, terima kasih.

Bu Gillian

Gillian Stuart—Principal

Due to unforeseen circumstances, unfortunately the Mental Health presentation scheduled for 12 November will be postponed to a later date.

POSTPONED

Postponement of Puppet Camp

Hello Everyone,

I'm really sorry but due to the sad passing of a cherished

Elder from Bowraville today we feel we have to postpone the

puppet camp that was to run this coming week. I'm sorry to

disappoint all those children but we feel it wouldn't be right

to go ahead with it at this time. It probably won’t go ahead till

term 1 in 2019. I'll let you know when we set another date.

Thanking You,

Jenni Farrands Gumbaynggirr 3rd Space Mob

Aboriginal Education Worker

Bellingen High School & Project Manager

Southern Gumbaynggirr SLIKK for 3rd Space Mob

Parent Information - Reminders

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Links

School website:

http://www.scottshead-

p.schools.nsw.edu.au/

School facebook page:

https://

www.facebook.com/

scottsheadpublicschool?fref=ts

Skoolbag Application:

Search “Scotts Head Public

School” in the app store.

8.30am Morning

Supervision

in cola

Start

School

8.55am

9.00am until

11.00am

Morning Session

Crunch and Sip

11.00am Lunch

11.50—1.30

pm

Middle Session

1.30 pm Recess

2.00pm-3pm Afternoon

Session

Bell Times

Remember to send in a

note if your child is absent

from school.

After 7 days, the system

automatically records as

an “Unexplained

Absence”.

P&C News P&C email scottsheadpandc@hotmail.com

Senior Excursion to Cascade

A note went home yesterday with

more details regarding the

excursion. Ensure you read page 2

of the note - Student Guide to

Cascade. The bus will arrive Monday

morning

Sick Children

If your child is unwell please do not

send them to school until they are

well. It does not benefit the

student, our staff or the school

community to have a child unwell at

school.

Term 4 Canteen Roster If you would like to help in the

canteen please contact via email above or leave a

message with your contact details at the office. Your

interest will be passed on to Mel or Rochelle who are

organising the roster for Term 4.

Canteen Roster

Week 3

MON 29/10 Mel & Kathleen

WED 31/10 Jo B

Week 4

MON 5/11 Kathleen

WED 7/11 Jo B

It is important that children know

how to wash their hands

thoroughly.

It is especially important when we

have a students with healthcare

issues. We ask parents to

supervise hand washing at home

and encourage them to follow

good handwashing skills at

school.

Good Health

Practice - Hand

washing

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Congratu lat ions to Ri tch ie

Donovan and Charlie Templeton

who participated in the Alice

Springs Masters Cup earlier this

month.

Ritchie came home with 3 gold

medals from 3 events and Charlie

came home with 2 gold, 2 silver

and 2 bronze from 6 events.

Creative Arts Exhibition

Nambucca Valley 10 Schools are participating in an Arts Exhibition, being held at the

Stringer Gallery, Nambucca Community and Arts Centre, Nambucca Heads, from Monday,

26 November until Thursday 13 December.

The Stringer Gallery is open Wednesday to Friday from 10am – 3pm and Saturday 9.30am - 12 noon. Entry

is free so please come along and support our very talented students.

Five students from each of the Valley 10 schools have artwork in the exhibition. The schools represented are Bowraville Central,

Eungai, Frank Partridge VC, Macksville Public, Macksville High, Medlow, Nambucca Public, Nambucca High, Scotts Head and Stuarts

Point.

On Monday NRL coaches visited our school. We learnt how to play NRL and score tries. We had lots of teams. We learnt how to dodge and pass the ball. We had lots of fun and we hope they come back soon. By Sienna and Senita.

Music lessons are a big hit !

Cory will be doing lessons on

Monday and Friday’s. There are

still more spaces for lessons,

contact Cory on 0406 111999.

All students in music lessons will

be involved in the school band

on Fridays at lunch time which

will be funded by the school.

NRL Program Alice Springs

Masters Cup

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Last Thursday the 4/5/6 students went to the Bowraville Memorial cup to play touch football. We went there in loving

memory of Evelyn Greenup, Clinton Speedy-Duroux and Colleen Walker. When we arrived we had a ceremony to honour

the three children and had three minutes of silence for each child, Uncle Martin and a few other elders and children did

a smoking ceremonial dance. The rest of the day we did all sorts of activities when we weren’t on the fields. At the end of

the day they handed out awards for the winning team, the second team and best and fairest, the people who won best

and fairest from our school were Roman Krause, Grace Hill, Kobi Evans, Urukhai Vallance and Jye Berthold. We all had

heaps of fun and we got an awesome shirt, henna designs, face painting, stationary etc. Thank you to everybody who

organised it, we all had an amazing day! By Kasi and Nina

Bowraville Memorial Cup

School & Community News

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Lifetime Connect

Playgroup

Scotts Head

Wednesdays in the LLLCC at SHPS

Playgroup Contact Number: 0447 485 276

Routine

10am-10:55am – Planned Activities

10:55am-11am – Wash Hands

11am – 11:15am – Morning Tea

11:15am – 11:35am – Free Play

11:35am – 11:45am – Pack Away

11:45am – 12noon – Group Time

12noon – Home Time

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